This change is more annoying than it is functional (So annoying that I actually made an account on this site to tell you about it!) I come here for precisely two reasons - 1) Zero Punctuation, 2) Escape To The Movies. I do nothing else on this site, nor do I have a desire to do anything else. I used to watch Extra Credits here, but of course that turned out to be a massive fiasco. It used to be nice and simple to find these columns on the sidebar to the right, but now they are in an annoying hover-over-drop-down-menu at the top (A design that I have hated since its inception, since it goes away the second you hover off of it) and it took me a half hour to find the content I wanted the first time I looked.
You are steadily taking away the reasons I come to this site at all, so if you want to lose web traffic, continue to make bad design changes that mess up site navigation. If I weren't such a fan of Yahtzee and Movie Bob I would consider abandoning Escapist entirely.